Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Aaron Fiedlerwas an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature. His most cited work is Love and Death in the American Novel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth8 March 1917
CountryUnited States of America
funny thinking patterns
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
lasts facts poet
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
tolerance analysis lows
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
destiny america imagine
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
firefighter people want
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
wrestling arms affection
I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
kings people remember
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
book black female
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
funny critics
It's funny to be a critic.
american-critic
Writers always know whether you like them or not.
american-critic blow clear somebody
What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.
call large love people prefer queer themselves
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
american-critic art both folk form
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.